MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20140087770A1
• Filed: 04/30/2012
• Published: 03/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Hangyu, Oh, Minseok, Park, Kyujin
• Granted Patent: US 9,867,025 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/457
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

The present invention provides a mobile terminal comprising: a wireless communication unit for sensing a location of a mobile terminal, and receiving, from the outside, a place image corresponding to the location of the mobile terminal and neighboring terminal information of at least one neighboring terminal at the same place as the mobile terminal; a control unit for generating a device map on which the neighboring terminal which is at the same place as the mobile terminal, is displayed on the basis of the place image and the neighboring terminal information; a memory for storing the device map; and a display unit for displaying the device map.

Claims

1. A mobile terminal, comprising:

a wireless communication unit configured to detect a location of the mobile terminal, and externally receive a place image corresponding to the location of the mobile terminal and a neighbor terminal information on at least one neighbor terminal located at a same place of the mobile terminal;

a controller configured to create a device map for displaying the neighbor terminal located at the same place of the mobile terminal based on the place image and the neighbor terminal information;

a memory storing the device map; and

a display unit configured to display the device map.

2. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the neighbor terminal information corresponds to the neighbor terminal located within a prescribed spaced distance from the mobile terminal.

3. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the neighbor terminal information corresponds to the neighbor terminal belonging to a same network cell of the wireless communication unit.

4. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the neighbor terminal information corresponds to the neighbor terminal accessing a same access point of the wireless communication unit.

5. The mobile terminal of claim 3, wherein the neighbor terminal information corresponds to the neighbor terminal accessing a same base station of the wireless communication unit or a same femto cell of the wireless communication unit.

6. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the memory further stores a search parameter, wherein the controller configured to filter the neighbor device information using the search parameter, and create the device map using the filtered neighbor device information.

7. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the search parameter is a designation of a terminal category and wherein the controller configured to filter the neighbor device information in a manner of determining whether the neighbor terminal is categorized into the terminal category determined by the search parameter.

8. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the search parameter is a designation of a terminal communication system and wherein the controller configured to filter the neighbor device information in a manner of determining whether the neighbor device supports a communication system determined by the search parameter.

9. The mobile terminal of claim 6, wherein the search parameter relates to a spaced distance and wherein the controller configured to filter the neighbor device information in a manner of determining whether the neighbor device is located within the spaced distance.

10. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the controller configured to create the device map in a manner of displaying a location of the neighbor terminal on the place image.

11. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the controller configured to create the device map in a manner of further displaying the location of the mobile terminal on the place image.

12. The mobile terminal of claim 11, wherein the controller configured to control the location of the mobile terminal and the location of the neighbor terminal to be visually discriminated from each other.

13. The mobile terminal of claim 12, wherein the controller configured to display the location of the mobile terminal using a cursor and display the location of the neighbor terminal using an icon.

14. The mobile terminal of claim 10, wherein the place image comprises a map image corresponding to the location of the mobile terminal.

15. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if at least one of the at least one neighbor terminal displayed on the device map is selected, the controller configured to perform a data communication with the selected neighbor terminal.

16. The mobile terminal of claim 15, wherein the controller configured to control the wireless communication unit to receive a shared file shared by the neighbor terminal from the neighbor terminal.

17. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if at least one of the at least one neighbor terminal displayed on the device map is selected, the wireless communication unit configured to receive video data from the selected neighbor terminal, and

wherein the controller configured to control the display unit to display the video data.

18. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein the wireless communication unit configured to receive a first event occurrence message from at least one of the at least one neighbor terminal displayed on the device map.

19. The mobile terminal of claim 18, wherein if the first event occurrence message is received, the controller configured to control a second event indicating that the first event is occurred.

20. The mobile terminal of claim 19, wherein the second event comprises at least one of an output of an alarm sound and a display of an alarm message.

21. The mobile terminal of claim 1, wherein if at least one of the at least one neighbor terminal displayed on the device map is selected, the controller configured to control the display unit to display an operating state of the selected neighbor terminal.

22. The mobile terminal of claim 21, wherein the controller configured to create a control message for controlling an operation of the selected neighbor terminal and control the wireless communication unit to send the control message to the selected neighbor terminal.

23. The mobile terminal of claim 22, wherein the control message is created to control a power ON/OFF of the neighbor terminal.

24. A method of controlling a mobile terminal, comprising:

the step (a) of detecting a location of the mobile terminal

the step (b) of receiving a place image corresponding to the location of the mobile terminal and a neighbor terminal information on at least one neighbor terminal located at a same place of the mobile terminal; and

the step (c) of creating a device map using the place image and the neighbor terminal information.